The ghosts of our time

𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝙹𝙾𝙱

𝚌𝚑𝚙. 3

I woke up and checked my phone, no calls, no emails, no nothing. I thought that I should go out and apply for a university or a job. Because I am 18 I could do both so I got ready and went to breakfast to look for a university. 9:00AM, ate food and applied for uni. 

9:30- Got a call from an old lady booking me for tomorrow to get rid of a visitor in her home. I wrote all I needed down and said ok, the pay that I was getting was good £40 per hour! I thought that I should get going as she needed me for around 11:00am and was living at least an hour away. I payed the bill and left for the train. "One ticket to Windsor please," I asked the ticket man "oh and the quickest train possible." He was a big bulky man with a bald head as shiny as mirror " allrigh! one ticket tae Windsor!" He said. I got my ticket,got on the train and sat down. As I was staring out the window I realised, the lady on the phone did say there will be two others from another small agency there called 'Lockwood and Co." I assumed that it was only the two that was coming that were in this agency and one of them is called Lockwood. On the train I typed them up and saw their advert::

LOCKWOOD AND CO.

GHOST HUNTING AGENCY 

LOOKING FOR WORKERS OR JOBS

CALL TO SIGN UP OR BOOK : ***********

They seem quite a real agency and honestly I hoped they wouldn't show up so I would be the only one working but it was fine.

10:50am- I stood up from my seat and walked to the door as the train was stopping soon and I was already running late so I needed to speed there. The train suddenly came to a hault, I fell to the side a little and it felt like I was being pushed. Honestly it was quite embarrassing as there was a lady standing with a pram and two toddlers at the other side of me just staring at me and when I turned around she gave me the full on side eye. The door opened and I walked out and ran, by this time it was already 10:56. I grabbed a taxi and got there at 11:02 knocked the door and waited. 

I stood there waiting in the cold staring at the old, rotting house. Rotting like an old banana left on a radiator, I don't even know why the woman wanted me to clear this house, it wasn't the type of house anyone lives in. To take a guess I would say the last time it was used was 1898, I stood quietly waiting holding my bags. I knocked again, still no answer. I decided to take a seat on the large concrete steps. I must have been sitting there for over 20 minutes when I decided to knock again, maybe the lady on the phone meant 12?

Suddenly I heard a creak, the large door opened and a tiny old lady stood in the huge doorway. 

"Hello" she croaked

"Hi! I'm Sophie from SOPH & CO, you booked an appointment?"

"Yes I did, now you must be wondering I haven't been living in this house for over 30 years but I still own it. Im planning on getting it re decorated once the visitor has been removed."

"Great I will do my best!"

"Okay, I better get going now good luck! Oh and the other agency should be coming soon I don't know why they aren't here yet.." 

She walked off and I walked in. I watched her through the window hobbling along the pavement. I thought I would wait 10 minutes for the other agency and decided to explore this abandoned house. By my guess the wallpaper hadn't been touched since early 1900s because it was moldy at the corners. I walked up the stairs, one step at a time each step making a noise as loud as a horn. Upstairs there was a grandfather clock ticking away silently, the bedrooms were none the same as the hallway. An old bed with rusty frames I decided to go back down and make some tea and eat the digestives I brung and wait for the other agency.